15.12.2017

PRO class

Warren Jones from the USA has retained his title in 1:8 electric buggy Spec class. The 2016 Champ had to drive his socks off to take the 2017 title after a poor start. Poor that is loosing 1.5 seconds in the opening lap, 0.9 seconds in lap 4 and 0.7 seconds in lap 6... That's how closely cotested this Pro A-Main final was. Jordan Lot from France took the early lead with his fellow Frenchman Gaetan Anger in hot persuit. A bad mistake by Anger in lap 4 cost him 3 seconds and he was then passed by Jones to take second behind Lot. It was until 3 laps before the end that Jones had finally caught up with Lot after a small mistake costing him half a second, and managed to pass him. As the only driver to do 2 sub-40 second laps Warren Jones was crowned 2017 VRC World Champion, despite crashing his car on the finishline... Just 13 seconds separated the top-8 finishers in this A-Main. Must watch video!


PRO class

1.|Warren Jones|US|12|08:24.269 2.|Jordan Lot|FR|12|08:25.000 3.|Gaetan ANGER|FR|12|08:27.051 4.|Ely Rojas|US|12|08:31.594 5.|Jonas Dalensjö|SE|12|08:35.383 6.|Maryan Beresh|UA|12|08:36.640 7.|Robert Hillman|SE|12|08:37.029 8.|Tom Rinderknecht|US|12|08:37.337 9.|Tony DUGAN|US|11|08:01.477 10.|Andrea Giordano|IT|11|08:05.614

SPORT class

Tommy Giovinazzo from Canada led almost the whole race except for lap 6 when he had a severe crash loosing 3 seconds and letting Seb Lambert from France back in the race. A bad finishing lap loosing another 3 seconds almost cost Giovinazzo the tilte to Lambert. Jürgen Butzbach managed to pass Fred Fouilland to complete the podium with 0.7 seconds on Fouilland. All racers scored an 11-lapper, just 16 seconds apart.


SPORT class
1.|Tommy Giovinazzo|CA|11|08:09.920 2.|Seb LAMBERT|FR|11|08:11.220 3.|Jürgen Butzbach|AT|11|08:12.526 4.|Fred Fouilland|FR|11|08:13.280 5.|Frank Wagner|DE|11|08:14.225 6.|Pasi Vainionperä|FI|11|08:17.228 7.|Elis Röndahl|SE|11|08:18.803 8.|Nuno Lourenco|PT|11|08:23.238 9.|Marek Baumerth|SK|11|08:25.960 10.|Fulvio Marandola|IT||DNF

CLUB class
Club A-Main was dominated by William Dillon from the USA, leading from start to finish with a bad crash in his finishing lap but still having 5 seconds on runner-up Shaun Schutte from South Africa. Danilius Staliunas from Lithuania finished 3rd 4 seconds behind Schutte, after being in 2nd position till lap 5. 1 Bad lap (5) cost him 5 seconds and 2nd place...

CLUB class
1.|William Dillon|US|11|08:10.926 2.|Shaun Schutte|ZA|11|08:15.289 3.|Danielius Staliunas|LT|11|08:19.266 4.|Jozsef Valent|HU|11|08:23.874 5.|Paul Fendt|GB|11|08:25.106 6.|Alan Prevendar|US|11|08:30.620 7.|Noah Kaufmann|AT|11|08:42.968 8.|Tim Clark|US|11|08:50.672 9.|Pablo Izquierdo Lopez|ES|10|08:01.523 10.|Raul Infante Martinez|ES||DNF

USA took 1st overall in the Nations ranking, France 2nd and Sweden 3rd.
183 Racers competed in this event.

Congrets to the champions and the podium finishers!

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